Conclusion Legacy of the Dye Industry

Travis [19], in his Dexter Award Address What a Wonderful Empire is the Organic Chemistry delivered before the American Chemical Society s Division of the History of Chemistry, presented a Timeline for the Synthetic Dye Industry which marks the key steps in the industry s development in the latter half of the nineteenth century. 

1883 Adolf Baeyer at Munich draws the modern structural formula for 

1889 Central Research Laboratory, designed by Heinrich Caro, opens at the 

BASF Ludwigshafen factory. The industrial research laboratory becomes a formal business unit. 

Here are some of the areas that were completely transformed by the dye industry  

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